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Meet “Sawyer”, a coffee-making, robot barista during a demonstration at "Henn-na Cafe," Japanese for "Strange Cafe", in Tokyo on January 30, 2018. (Reuters)

Science Images – January 2018

February 1, 2018

A visitor to the Mission Mars exhibition presented by Russia’s Newton Park Interactive Museum of Science together with the children's techno-park Quantorium looks at ears of wheat grown without soil, by the hydroponic method without soil on 10/26/17. (Reuters)

October 2017 Science Images

October 31, 2017

This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of Galaxy NGC 6753 was released on September 18th. This galaxy is said to be one of only two known spiral galaxies that were both massive enough and close enough to permit detailed observations of their galactic coronas, which can only be detected by their X-ray emissions. (NASA/ESA/Hubble)

September 2017 Science Images

September 29, 2017

After launching the Iridium-2 mission on June 25, 2017, the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 is seen here returning and coming in for a landing on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship that was positioned in the Pacific Ocean. (SpaceX, Flickr/Creative Commons)

Science Images – June, 2017

June 30, 2017

NASA plans to send a spacecraft to within 6.5 million kilometers of the sun's surface next summer. Here’s an artistic rendering of the Parker Solar Probe heading toward the Sun. On May 31, the spacecraft was named to honor astrophysics Eugene Parker who discovered the solar wind in 1958. (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory).

May 2017 – Science Images

June 1, 2017

Engineer Volkmar Dohmen stands in front of a giant bank of xenon short-arc lamps at the DLR German national aeronautics and space research center in Germany. When switched on, what is being called the world’s largest artificial sun creates combined intensity that's 10,000x stronger than sun's light on Earth's surface and produces temperatures of around 2,982° Celsius. The photo was taken on 3/21/17 (AP)

March 2017 Science Images

March 31, 2017

February 2017 Science Images

March 1, 2017

Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on January 24 simulated the extreme vibrating conditions spacesuit-clad astronauts would experience as an Orion spacecraft is launched atop the powerful Space Launch System rocket on its way to deep space destinations. (NASA)

January 2017 Science Images

February 1, 2017

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured images of a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun on 10/30/16. Seen in this animated GIF, the lunar transit lasted for about one hour. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng)

October 2016 Science Images

November 2, 2016

September 2016 Science Images

September 30, 2016